Jerome Segal

Jerome Segal
Born Jerome Michael Segal
(1943-11-25) November 25, 1943
The Bronx, New York City
Residence Silver Spring, Maryland
Other names Jerry Segal[1]
Citizenship American
Education City College of New York (AB, Philosophy, Economics), University of Michigan (PhD), University of Minnesota (MPA)
Occupation Political philosopher, Conflict-resolution practitioner
Employer The Jewish Peace Lobby
Known for Arab-Israeli peace work
Notable work Creating the Palestinian State, Agency and Alienation, Negotiating Jerusalem, Graceful Simplicity, Joseph's Bones
Political party Democratic

Jerome Michael Segal (born November 25, 1943) is an American philosopher and political activist in Silver Spring, Maryland.

Segal is a research scholar at the University of Maryland and the president of the Jewish Peace Lobby.[2] He is a Democratic primary candidate for U.S. Senate in the 2018 election in Maryland.[3]

Early life and education

Segal was born and raised in The Bronx. His father, a socialist and member of the Jewish Labor Bund, was born in Poland and immigrated to the United States, where he found employment as a factory worker in the garment industry.[4] After graduating from the Bronx High School of Science, Segal went to City College of New York, where he received honors in philosophy and economics, and was awarded the Brittain Prize in Moral Philosophy.[5] Segal went on to receive a PhD from the University of Michigan, and taught in the philosophy department of the University of Pennsylvania. He later received an MPA from the Hubert Humphrey School of the University of Minnesota.[6]

Career

After receiving his MPA from the University of Minnesota, Segal moved to Washington, D.C. in 1974 to work as an aide to Congressman Donald M. Fraser and administrator of the House Budget Committee's task force on distributive impacts of economic policy. In 1979, he became Coordinator for the Near East in the policy bureau of the US Agency for International Development and, later, Senior Advisor for Agency Planning. After leaving government, he joined the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy at the University of Maryland as Senior Research Scholar.[7]

Segal has been a leader of the American Jewish peace movement, starting in 1982 with Washington Area Jews for Israeli-Palestinian Peace (WAJIPP), a group that opposed the Israeli invasion of Lebanon. In 1987, he traveled to Tunis to meet Yasser Arafat and leaders of the Palestine Liberation Organization. No American Jewish delegation had ever met with the PLO, which the U.S. government officially considered a terrorist organization at the time.[8] In August 1988, Israel raided the offices of Faisal al-Husseini, a Palestinian militant, and discovered a plan, based in part on earlier writings by Segal, for a ''declaration of Palestinian independence."[9] That plan, along with other writings by Segal in Palestinian papers such as Al-Quds, were a catalyst for the Palestinian Declaration of Independence later that year and the Palestinian peace initiative in which Israel's right to exist was recognized.[10][11]

In May 1989, Segal founded the Jewish Peace Lobby, which would act as a counterweight to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC).[12][13] The Peace Lobby remains active today, with about 5,000 members (including 400 rabbis).[14]

In 2018, Segal announced the creation of a new socialist political party called "Bread and Roses", after raising the prerequisite 10,000 signatures needed by the Maryland Board of Elections. The party is named after a slogan used by striking workers during the 1912 Lawrence textile strike.[15]

Personal life

Segal is married to Naomi Nim. They live in Silver Spring, Maryland, and have one child.

Books

  • Creating the Palestinian State[16]
  • Agency and Alienation[17]
  • Negotiating Jerusalem[18]
  • Graceful Simplicity[19]
  • Joseph's Bones[20]
  • Agency, Illusion, and Well-Being[21]

References

  1. ↑ Fritze, John (February 7, 2018). "Maryland Senator Ben Cardin files for re-election". Local. Cecil Whig. Elkton, Maryland. p. A5. Retrieved June 27, 2018 – via Newspapers.com (Publisher Extra).
  2. ↑ "Search - The Washington Post - Jerome M. Segal". Washington Post. Retrieved 2017-12-13.
  3. ↑ Portnoy, Jenna (January 17, 2018). "How a defiant Chelsea Manning could upend the race for U.S. Senate in Maryland". Washington Post. Retrieved January 24, 2018.
  4. ↑ Pear, Robert; Times, Special to the New York (1988-08-24). "WASHINGTON TALK: FOREIGN AFFAIRS; Jewish Father for Palestinian State?". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2018-01-15.
  5. ↑ "Graduation Is Set at City College". The New York Times. 1964-06-17. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2018-01-15.
  6. ↑ Segal, Jerome M. (2009). Agency, Illusion, and Well-being: Essays in Moral Psychology and Philosophical Economics. Lexington Books. ISBN 9780739129692.
  7. ↑ Andrews, Cecile; Urbanska, Wanda (2009-09-01). Less is More: Embracing Simplicity for a Healthy Planet, a Caring Economy and Lasting Happiness. New Society Publishers. ISBN 9781550924312.
  8. ↑ "Jerome Segal: Visionary who led Congress to establish $10 Million Annual Peace Fund · Jewschool". Jewschool. 2015-02-26. Retrieved 2018-01-16.
  9. ↑ Pear, Robert; Times, Special to the New York (1988-08-24). "WASHINGTON TALK: FOREIGN AFFAIRS; Jewish Father for Palestinian State?". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2018-01-16.
  10. ↑ User. "MIDDLE EAST DIALOGUE 2013 CONFERENCE PRESENTERS ABOUT THE AUTHORS". webcache.googleusercontent.com. Retrieved 2018-01-16.
  11. ↑ "Nonfiction Book Review: Creating the Palestinian State: A Strategy for Peace by Jerome M. Segal, Author Lawrence Hill Books $9.95 (177p) ISBN 978-1-55652-055-6". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved 2018-01-16.
  12. ↑ "Liberal U.s. Jews Lobby For Israel-plo Talks". tribunedigital-sunsentinel. Retrieved 2018-01-16.
  13. ↑ Adler, Cyrus; Szold, Henrietta (1995). American Jewish Year Book. VNR AG. ISBN 9780874951080.
  14. ↑ "The Jewish Peace Lobby". www.jewishpeacelobby.org. Retrieved 2018-01-16.
  15. ↑ "Ex-US Senate candidate asks Maryland to sanction a socialist party". Herald-Mail Media. Retrieved 2018-08-27.
  16. ↑ Segal, Jerome M. (1989). Creating the Palestinian state : a strategy for peace (1st ed.). Chicago, Ill.: Lawrence Hill Books. ISBN 9781556520556. OCLC 18779422.
  17. ↑ 1943-, Segal, Jerome M., (1991). Agency and alienatiion : a theory of human presence. Savage, Md.: Rowan & Littlefield. ISBN 9780847676286. OCLC 23356376.
  18. ↑ Segal, Jerome M. (1996). Agency and alienation : a theory of human presence (1st paperback ed.). Lanham, Maryland.: Rowan & Littlefield. ISBN 0847682072. OCLC 35295628.
  19. ↑ Segal, Jerome M. (2003). Graceful simplicity : the philosophy and politics of the alternative American dream (Paperback ed.). Berkeley, California.: University of California Press. ISBN 0520236009. OCLC 49531032.
  20. ↑ Segal, Jerome M. (2007). Joseph's bones : understanding the struggle between God and mankind in the Bible. New York: Riverhead Books. ISBN 1594489394. OCLC 76261878.
  21. ↑ Segal, Jerome M. (2009). Agency, illusion, and well-being : essays in moral psychology and philosophical economics. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books. ISBN 0739129694. OCLC 243674284.
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